Saturday, October 13, 2012

"Dreaming the Magic of Your Maya was recorded in room number 22, at the Hotel Stella in Paris, over a three-month period in 1967. This was where Ziska and Loren were living at the time. It was a garret room on the top floor of the famous/infamous left bank hotel and room 22 was the best room in the place, overlooking the Jardin du Luxembourg, on Rue Monseieur-le-Prince. It was small, you couldn't fit more than fifteen people in it

The hotel was full of musicians and poets and performes and artists and various colorful people moving up and down in the bohemian world. Friends would drop by room 22 often and engage in spontaneous music making. Loren kept a Sony reel to reel at the ready and recorded all these sessions. Sometimes, when more people showed up than could fit in the room, they would break into groups and to to play music in the park. It was a time of intense experimentation and freedom, of pushing the boundaries. Meanwhile the student revolution of 1968 was fomenting. It was an exciting time to be in Paris...." from artwork

Actually, mp3s are better for some of us... this a very big file to download for those of us with smaller dload allowances and less reliable connections. Before I try again to get this (depositfiles froze up on me last time, over 100mb in) can anyone tell me if this is a clean rip or a very crackly one? I already have a low bitrate highly crackly rip of this, hoping to find something better. If only they released this on cd I would buy it!best wishes,Chris